La imagen de Santa Fe (Granada) en la sillería del coro bajo de la catedral de Toledo

Abstract

The iconographie representations of a city are always a valuable testimony which, when compared and completed with other documents, permit a more reliable approximation to the morphology and urban structure of a city at a given historical moment. In the case of Santa Fe only one image of exceptional importance has been preserved, revealing its appearance at the time of its foundation in 1491: a panel from the lower choir stalls of Toledo Cathedral. The authors demonstrate that this relief, until now erroneously thought to represent the siege of Malaga, actually shows the Real de la Vega and the Real de Santa Fe, with the city of Granada in the background. The information contained in this image provides revealing data concerning the new city and coincides with contemporary documentary testimonies as well as with other later graphic representations.